| Homework Survival for Parents by James Lehman
You graduated from school years ago. But you’re still dealing with homework every night for hours on end, and it’s no fun. If your child refuses to bring work home, won’t do it at night or gives you endless grief when you try to help, James Lehman explains how to get your child to do his homework so that you can stop the nightly tug of war and stop doing the work for him. Homework is often a barometer of what’s going on in the child’s life, and it’s easy for parents to misinterpret the issue. Sometimes the child can’t do the work because of a learning disability. Very often, the issue really isn’t the homework. The homework is what we call the “incident.” The issue is an unwillingness to do the work. |
| Gut Check: Do You Parent with Your Wallet? (Or Know Someone Who Does?) by James Lehman
What kid doesn’t love it when Mom or Dad spends money on them? When you can afford it, buying things for your children is fun. But there’s a point where we buy things for our kids for the wrong reasons: to win their allegiance or simply to get them to stop screaming. Where is the line between generosity and parenting with your wallet, and what’s the danger of crossing that line? James Lehman explains. |
| Four Success Secrets for Stepparents by Emily Bouchard, MSSW  At times, being a stepparent can seem like a thankless job. Besides normal parent and family issues, you also have disagreements over parenting with former spouses and a lot of hurt and anger being hurled at you from kids on both sides. In this article, family therapist and stepmother Emily Bouchard takes a look at stepparenting and gives you some advice you can use.Parenting in the 21st century is challenging enough with all the pressure families deal with on a day-to-day basis. Add to this "parenting pressure-cooker" the specific issues related to blended families (issues including: financial challenges due to uncollected child support and legal fees; navigating parenting differences in two households; children living part-time in the home, while others are there full-time; shifts in birth order and status; as well as the ever-present struggles with former spouses) and you have a recipe for disaster. |
| Is There a Responsible Adult Trapped Inside Your Teenager? Book Review and Q&A with Robert Epstein, Ph.D. The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen by Elisabeth Wilkins, Editor of Empowering Parents
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| Does Your Child Say This? by James Lehman
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From the Editor's Desk
Have you ever picked up a parenting magazine, skimmed through a few articles, and thought, “None of this applies to my situation. They don’t understand my kid.” I know I have. As the mother of a four-and-a-half year old boy, I am often confronted with parenting situations that are difficult—sometimes impossible!—to handle in the moment they occur. At times it seems like parenting is a pop quiz—some days you pass, and some days you don’t do as well. Generic, one-size-fits-all articles have never seemed to apply to my family’s specific concerns.
As the editor of Empowering Parents, my goal is to help parents as they navigate through the complicated waters of child rearing, and to provide “straight talk and real results,” specific advice to you, the reader. Through our website, we are answering your questions one article at a time, and the parents in our online community (now 70,000 strong!) are using the solutions we’re offering with their kids and writing in for more. Thanks for taking the time to give us your comments and feedback. You’ve been asking some great questions—we hear you, and we’re doing our best to respond.
Many of you have written in asking about homework concerns, so in our September issue, we have an article on “Homework Survival” by James Lehman. The staff here at Empowering Parents has noticed that a lot of your feedback and comments from our last issue centered on “Consequences”—namely, what should you do if your child does not respond to the consequences they have been dealt? In response to the deluge of mail, our lead article in October will deal with that tricky subject. In this issue, we are also introducing a new feature called "Gut Check" by James Lehman that asks tough questions about parenting and shows you how to be more effective in dealing with your kids. Keep the comments and questions coming—we’re trying our best to tackle each parenting hurdle as it presents itself!
In the coming months, we’ll be taking on the parenting issues you want answers to—from sibling rivalry to how to handle manipulative kids. So stay tuned. Because the truth is, we’re all in this together.
Elisabeth Wilkins, Editor of Empowering Parents
editor@empoweringparents.com
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Script It for the Next Time
During periods of stability, discuss different behavioral interventions you’re going to utilize the next time you’re involved with a specific inappropriate behavior. Do this casually and low key. The idea is to give the child a script to follow during the next conflict.
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